Category Archives: 2. From the Newsstand

From our friends at @IPPAWARDS 

2021 WINNERS ANNOUNCED – iPhone Photography Awards   Today, we proudly announce the winners of the 2021 iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS). The 14th Annual Awards recognize photographs taken over a remarkable year of grief and loneliness, but despite a global pandemic, the winning images all glimpse moments of beauty, hope and the endurance of the human spirit. See all winners at: ippawards.com   #ippawards #ippawardswinners2021 #iphonephotography #shotoniphone #iphonephotography #ippawards2021

What was only one small step 52 years ago, has inspired a lifetime of wonder 🚀 🌕

On July 20, 1969, three astronauts of #Apollo11, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, made history. Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon.

On this day, we celebrate the Moon landing and salute the heroes, visionaries and explorers who not only made the seemingly impossible, possible – but inspired us to return.

The @NASAArtemis program aims to take the next giant leap: landing the first woman and first person of color on the Moon – using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. In collaboration with our commercial and international partners, we will establish sustainable exploration for the first time, with our sights set on sending astronauts to Mars.

Credit: NASA

#NASA #NationalMoonDay #MoonLanding #Artemis

©Photo by Hannah Benet

Meet the Curator: A talk with Rebecca Morse

 (From APA’s Website): American Photographic Artists, Los Angeles (APA LA) is proud and honored to announce that Rebecca Morse, the influential Curator of The Wallis Annenberg Photography Department of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will be curating our 2021 Off The Clock Competition.

Since joining LACMA in 2013, Morse has curated inspired exhibitions of work by Larry Sultan: Here and Home, Thomas Joshua Cooper: The World’s Edge and Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld. Morse’s upcoming projects at LACMA include Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You, I Mean Me, I Mean You and Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising that examines the ways in which artists have mined the language of commercial photography for their own work.

Morse was previously Associate Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) where she organized such profound exhibitions as Amanda Ross Ho: Teeny Tiny Woman, Cai Guo-Qiang: Ladder to the Sky, Rodarte: States of Matter, The Artist’s Museum, and Florian Maier-Aichen.

With her broad experience in the fine art and museum world as well as a deep knowledge of photography’s roots — Morse has a singular and invaluable perspective on the medium of photography and its evolving role in contemporary art. 

To kickoff our March 1, 2021 Off The Clock call for entries, Rebecca Morse will be presenting an online talk moderated by David Robin (member of the APA LA Board of Directors) on Friday, February 26, 2021 at 1PM PST. This is your chance to meet and hear Ms. Morse discuss the evolution of contemporary photography and share her aesthetic, point of view and appreciation of the photographic image. 

Join us for this exciting event and get a leg-up prior to entering the Off The Clock competition!

Rebecca Morse

Rebecca Morse is the Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the largest art museum in the western United States. She was previously Associate Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) where she organized such profound exhibitions as Amanda Ross Ho: Teeny Tiny Woman, Cai Guo-Qiang: Ladder to the Sky, Rodarte: States of Matter, The Artist’s Museum, and Florian Maier-Aichen.

Since joining LACMA in 2013, Morse has curated inspired exhibitions of work by Larry Sultan: Here and Home, Thomas Joshua Cooper: The World’s Edge and Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld. Morse’s upcoming projects at LACMA include Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You, I Mean Me, I Mean You and Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising that examines the ways in which artists have mined the language of commercial photography for their own work.

With her broad experience in the fine art and museum world as well as a deep knowledge of photography’s roots — Morse has a singular and invaluable perspective on the medium of photography and its evolving role in contemporary art. APA Los Angeles is honored and humbled that Rebecca Morse will be joining us to curate Off The Clock 2021.

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Register HERE

Our friends at APA (American Photographic Artists) are proud to announce the winners of the 2020 APA Awards. View the gallery of impressive Award winning images on their website, or here. Congrats to the winners!

The American Photographic Artists (APA) organization have extended their submission deadline for the 2020 APA Awards contest to Tuesday, July 28th.

From the APA website:

“APA Awards Call for Entries is now open!

Our annual competition is open to all photographers at every level, worldwide — everyone from emerging photographers to established professionals.
Our Judges will select 43 APA Award Winners this year.
APA members save on each entry.  APA Leader level members save over 35% on each image.
Now is a great time to join APA : enter enough images and your first year of membership can be free.“

American Photographic Artists announces their 2018 Award Winners! On behalf of the whole SYNC team, we congratulate these incredible artists on their well-deserved wins. Check out the entire gallery HERE on the APA website and see the first place winners in the gallery below. To navigate, click the left/right arrows. Clicking on the images will bring you to the artist’s website.

On July 19th, the premiere of the 2nd season of Snowfall aired on FX. If you live in Los Angeles, you have probably seen one of the many incredible billboards and gorgeous posters around the city. There was even a pop-up Summer Kickback event for the premiere on La Cienega Boulevard which featured an entire building front recreated in the color scheme of the marketing!

These dramatic and beautiful images were created by mega-talented SYNC friend and longtime client, Matthias Clamer and his incredible team. Check out the billboards and Matthias’ gorgeous work below.

Melissa McCarthy is an inspiration to women and aspiring female comedians and actors. Her work is simultaneously hilarious and touching and SYNC client and longtime friend Jim Wright has captured her energy and spirit perfectly for AARP magazine. Photographed together with her Mother Sandy, Jim’s images and the corresponding article by David Hochman will hit you right in the feels. Read more about how Jim pulled off this shoot below!

Q&A with Jim Wright!

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